2009/12/18 Marc Girod:
>> the problem is that cleartool is written for Windows
>> thus uses /dev/conout
>>
> I can see /dev/conout, but what can I do with it?
It won't literally be using /dev/conout, because that's a Cygwin
wrapper round a Windows concept.
Cleartool is doing either of two things:
defaria wrote:
>
> the problem is that cleartool is written for Windows
> thus uses /dev/conout
>
I can see /dev/conout, but what can I do with it?
I found one hit in the docs:
http://www.cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
Thanks,
Marc
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Andy Koppe wrote:
>
> Thanks, I had't heard of ttyfier. Interesting stuff! More
> comprehensive than my 'conin' attempt because it tranlates output as
> well as input.
>
I downloaded the sources and built it.
My first try at using it wasn't very convincing: it didn't display anything
and I had
Marc Girod wrote:
Hello,
I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin.
In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user
for an interactive decision.
I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs shell or xterm-- or
the Cygwin terminal
Eric Blake wrote:
>
> In my opinion, the MVFS file system is a piece of trash. It has so many
> corner cases that intentionally _break_ POSIX rules and thus get in the
> way of normal assumptions about how file systems should work
>
Maybe. The question is: is it worth it?
I believe it is.
Eri
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According to Andrew DeFaria on 12/13/2009 6:52 PM:
> MVFS is a good idea if used correctly IMHO.
In my opinion, the MVFS file system is a piece of trash. It has so many
corner cases that intentionally _break_ POSIX rules and thus get in the
way of no
Andy Koppe wrote:
> But the DLL injection makes me wonder: is it possible to override
> existing functions such as WriteConsole or ReadConsole?
You'd need to inject a DLL that hotpatched the IAT live in memory, which is
certainly possible, but a bit hacky. (I don't know whether the LD_PRELOAD
2009/12/13 René Berber:
> And there's the old 'ttyfier' which almost worked:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2006-03/msg00164.html
>
> I say almost because it assumes a fixed terminal size and it fails if
> the output exceeds that size, and there where other problems but the OP
> might find
On 12/13/2009 04:21 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
Ghastly top-heavy over-engineered UML-laden bloatware that comes with
its own non-standard filing system does tend to make me do that ;-)
Clearcase does not use UML - nor UML laden bloatware AFAICT. Perhaps
you're thinking of Rational Rose. The "non-stand
On 12/13/2009 6:38 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 12/13/2009 06:35 PM, Marc Girod wrote:
OK. It does. Without CYGWIN=tty, I get the output to the console.
What shall I miss without it?
Perhaps correct interaction with Emacs? I can't remember which
variant of Emacs offered with Cygwin won't
On 12/13/2009 06:35 PM, Marc Girod wrote:
OK. It does. Without CYGWIN=tty, I get the output to the console.
What shall I miss without it?
Perhaps correct interaction with Emacs? I can't remember which
variant of Emacs offered with Cygwin won't handle everything
correctly without PTYs. You can
Dave Korn-6 wrote:
>
> Ghastly top-heavy over-engineered UML-laden bloatware that comes with
> its
> own non-standard filing system does tend to make me do that ;-)
>
There's a gem well hidden inside.
Dave Korn-6 wrote:
>
> That'll teach you to choose the wrong side in the One True Editor
Marc Girod wrote:
>
> Dave Korn-6 wrote:
>> *shudder*
>>
> Er?
Ghastly top-heavy over-engineered UML-laden bloatware that comes with its
own non-standard filing system does tend to make me do that ;-)
>> It's almost certainly not hung: it's printed the prompt, which has gotten
>> lost somew
Andy Koppe wrote:
>
> Did you restart your Cygwin session? I think that setting only gets
> read once at the start of the first Cygwin process.
>
No: I only set the environment varaible in the console shell.
I am now updating cygwin... I didn't do that for a few weeks.
Andy Koppe wrote:
>
> O
2009/12/13 Marc Girod:
>> Surprised it doesn't work in the Cygwin console, unless you've got
>> CYGWIN=tty set?
>>
> I have. Dave Korn told me to take it away.
> Anyway, no result one way or the other.
Did you restart your Cygwin session? I think that setting only gets
read once at the start of th
Andy Koppe wrote:
>
> 2009/12/13 Marc Girod:
> Surprised it doesn't work in the Cygwin console, unless you've got
> CYGWIN=tty set?
>
I have. Dave Korn told me to take it away.
Anyway, no result one way or the other.
Andy Koppe wrote:
>
> The problem likely is that cleartool.exe expects to
>
Dave Korn-6 wrote:
>
> *shudder*
>
Er?
Dave Korn-6 wrote:
>
> It's almost certainly not hung: it's printed the prompt, which has
> gotten
> lost somewhere, and it's now waiting for your input. Try hitting enter.
>
This is what I meant.
I thought I had tried hitting Enter... It works.
Un
On 2009-12-13, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/12/13 Marc Girod:
> > I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin.
> > In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user
> > for an interactive decision.
> > I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X -
2009/12/13 Dave Korn:
>> I'm currently working on a little utility for this sort of situation.
>> It's called 'conin'
>
> Conin The Barbarian?
Yeah, I guess with all the goodness of Cygwin available, using native
console programs is rather a savage thing to do. ;)
> Heh. This looks pretty inte
Andy Koppe wrote:
[snip]
> I'm currently working on a little utility for this sort of situation.
> It's called 'conin' and translates Cygwin pty input to Windows console
> input. Source is available at
> http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/utils/conin.c and a Cygwin 1.7
> executable can be found at
>
On 2009-12-13, Marc Girod wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin.
> In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user
> for an interactive decision.
> I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs shell or xterm
Andy Koppe wrote:
> I'm currently working on a little utility for this sort of situation.
> It's called 'conin'
Conin The Barbarian? Heh. This looks pretty interesting. It would be neat
if there was a low-cost way of detecting native windows executables that need
this and making it happen a
2009/12/13 Marc Girod:
> I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin.
> In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user
> for an interactive decision.
> I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs shell or xterm-- or
> the Cygwin ter
Marc Girod wrote:
> I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin.
*shudder*
> In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user
> for an interactive decision.
> I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs shell or xterm-- or
> the
Hello,
I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin.
In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user
for an interactive decision.
I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs shell or xterm-- or
the Cygwin terminal.
My process just h
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